| 1863 | - Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
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| 1864 | - Lincoln refuses to sign Wade-Davis bill.
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| 1865 | - Freedmen’s Bureau established.
- Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president.
- Black codes enacted.
- Thirteenth Amendment becomes part of Constitution.
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| 1866 | - Congress approves Fourteenth Amendment.
- Civil Rights Act.
- American Equal Rights Association founded.
- Ku Klux Klan founded.
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| 1867 | - Military Reconstruction Act.
- Tenure of Office Act.
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| 1868 | - Impeachment trial of President Johnson.
- Ulysses S. Grant elected president.
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| 1869 | - Congress approves Fifteenth Amendment.
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| 1871 | |
| 1872 | - Liberal Party formed.
- President Grant reelected.
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| 1873 | - Economic depression sets in.
- Slaughterhouse cases.
- Colfax massacre.
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| 1874 | - Democrats win majority in House of Representatives.
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| 1875 | |
| 1876 | - United States v. Cruikshank.
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| 1877 | - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president; Reconstruction era ends.
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